Friday, June 03, 2016

2016 Panini Diamond Kings blaster recap

This came out a couple of months ago and I saw a couple of breaks / reviews from at least couple of other bloggers [Capewood's Collections and Night Owl Cards] - though my BS detector says these are just like any cards [and not MLB licensed at that], the textured canvas make the cards seem a little bit more fancy.
  
Hobby boxes maybe too rich for my blood at the moment and while I thought about picking up a couple of blasters online - retail DK doesn’t come with one hit [maybe an auto or relic card] per blaster guarantee, so I was kind of iffy, even if any particular hit wouldn't be all that great.

I went into Target looking for 2016 Topps Archives but none were on the shelves yet - but these were out so I grabbed a blaster to see if I could scratch the itch.

Pack one
#22 Tony Lazzeri
#13 Lou Gehrig
#56 Andrew McCutchen

#HC6 Johnny Bench
- Heritage Collection insert
#143 Miguel Sano
#124 A.J. Pollock

Pack two

#3 Billy Martin
#19 Rogers Hornsby
#9 Joe DiMaggio
#32 Goose Goslin
- mini
#183 Kelby Tomlinson
#120 Matt Carpenter

Pack three
#93 Nelson Cruz
#84 Josh Donaldson

#59 Bryce Harper
- apparently this is an image variation, though not SP’d.
#E8 Felix Hernandez
- Impressionists insert
#179 Pedro Severino
#116 Prince Fielder

Pack four
#54 Adrian Gonzalez
#99 Stephen Strasburg
#90 Miguel Cabrera

#DK04 Clayton Kershaw
- Originals insert
#174 Jorge Lopez
#171 Gary Sanchez
#112 Jorge Soler

Pack five
#51 Adam Jones
#47 Jim Gilliam
#82 Jose Altuve

#MF8 Roger Maris
- Memorable Feats insert
#167 Max Kepler
#108 David Price

Pack six
#42 Johnny Sain
#75 Giancarlo Stanton
#69 Evan Gattis
#45 Tom Yawkey
- Red border parallel serial #’d 63/99
#163 Luis Severino
#104 Yadier Molina

Pack seven
#36 Dom DiMaggio
#29 Frankie Frisch
#64 David Ortiz

#A8 Kris Bryant
- Aficionado insert
#159 Robert Refsnyder
#140 Carlos Rodon

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